Mission Critical: Death of the Phoenix - A Novel

One doesn't usually expect a "packaged" book to amount to much. Mission Critical does. I hadn't played the game when I read it, but I enjoyed it so much that I ran out and got it - and even with high hopes I was very pleasantly surprised. The book is not the story of the game as so often happens - not even close - but the plots of book and game intertwine, with touchpoints at the start and end and throughout. Each enhances the other and really adds to the whole experience. The whole other-world universe came alive for me.